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Hey, hey, Lisa Murkowski! The word you're looking for in 'haangina-lix'.


What a sense of entitlement this madcap person has! Just look at the NYT's photo: wide, staring eyes, down turned lips. She reminds me of that hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, with similar unreasonable temper flares if she doesn't get what she thinks she deserves; an anger fueled by the expectancy of power dependency.

No matter what party or ideology, this sort of power-mad person needs to be shown the door. Alaska and this nation deserve better representatives.

But then I look to Minnesota, and see Al Franken, and realize that anything can happen.

And I remember Scuzzafava, and her antics. Hopefully Ms. Lisa (MY Senate Seat!) Hemlsley can join her in obscurity after November 2.

Oh..."Princess Lisa", from itsnotyourseatlisa.com.

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A largely symbolic gesture (he's saving $250 Million whilst spending $9 Trillion, over 10 years) that's riled his lefty base. From Leftard Lake...

The reviews are in and President Hoover McCain Obama’s hope and changey spending freeze has not been well received.

• OpenLeft: “This is Bush-style idiocy.”
• Americablog: “I guess Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson will think it’s a good idea.”
• 538: “…on par with John McCain’s “suspending my campaign” gaffe.”
• Orange Satan: “…unalloyed idiocy.”
• MyDD: “Barack Obama may as well hold up a big sign that says, “I want Democrats to lose Congress.”
• Atrios: “We are ruled by idiots.”
• DeLong: “…a perfect example of the fundamental unseriousness of Barack Obama and his administration.”
• Digby: “We are all neo-Hooverists now.”
• Yglesias: “I suspect this initiative was deliberately leaked to progressive bloggers in an effort to get denounced by the left and I don’t want to give them the satisfaction.”

My goodness, but it's fun to watch these snapping turtles turn on their own!

Thing is, BHO has to move to center. After Ted Kennedy's Seat™ fell to Mr. Scott Brown (R, Massachusetts), BHO has no other choice. So this sprig of spending cuts as a token to Republicans. Who are rightly pointing and laughing.

So, Mr. Obama, how far will you go to make meaningful progress to center?

I, unlike Ted Kennedy's current tormentor Mary Jo Kopechne, will not hold my breath.

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Since the original intent of McCain - Feingold was to silence groups like the NRA, the decision overturning one of the left's primary tools fueling it's own takeover of government and it's unchallenged expansion is a victory for American citizens and gunowners that's especially sweet.

Here's the NRA-ILA's formal response...

"NRA praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that removed unconstitutional restrictions on NRA’s ability to speak freely at election time.

"The late Sen. Paul Wellstone had said during the original debate over this legislation that it was his intention to silence groups like NRA.  While the author of this measure had singled out NRA, this law delivered a clear message to all American citizens: “Keep your mouths shut and stay out of our political debates.”

"NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, said, “This ruling is a victory for anyone who believes that the First Amendment applies to each and every one of us.  The majesty of free speech is that any American can roll out of bed and speak as freely as The New York Times, NBC or politicians.  This is a defeat for arrogant elitists who wanted to carve out free speech as a privilege for themselves and deny it to the rest of us; and for those who believed that speech had a dollar value and should be treated and regulated like currency, and not a freedom.  Today’s decision reaffirms that the Bill of Rights was written for every American and it will amplify the voice of average citizens who want their voices heard.”

"The case originally centered on the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) denial of Citizens United’s attempt to broadcast a film about Hillary Clinton through on-demand cable services in January 2008, but had broader implications in protecting the First Amendment rights of organizations like NRA during elections.

"NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox, said, “This decision today returns sanity to our political system.  The First Amendment does not allow Congress to make laws denying Americans the right to speak out on issues, the right to assemble or organize on public policy issues, or the right to petition our government for redress of grievances.”

"NRA-ILA has been in the forefront of defending the First Amendment so we can protect the Second Amendment.  This ruling is clearly a victory for our continuing efforts to educate voters on where politicians stand on our fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms." [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Yes we can. Yes we have.

Enjoy! The cryings from the (lefty) politicians and the wailings from the (lefty) bloggers, and their wholly-owned denizens in the media! You'd think they'd taken a second body-blow this week. You'd think they were despondent, and that Obama feels this loss quite personally.

Oh, but he does...

Well, the Obama administration actually argued for these regulations before the Supreme Court in defending campaign finance regulations. Actually, they went even further and said that such regulations were essential to limiting how much money is spent on political campaigns.

Read About It: Fox News

...when President Obama's Deputy Solicitor General, Malcolm Stewart, first argued the case "Hillary: The Movie" before the Supreme Court last March, Justice Samuel Alito asked him if the government could prohibit companies from publishing books. Stewart said that was indeed possible. "That's pretty incredible," Alito responded, and then he pointed out that most book publishers are corporations.

"If [the book] has one name, one use of a candidate’s name, it could be covered?” Chief Justice John Roberts then asked. And Stewart replied: “That’s correct.” “It’s a 500-page book, and at the end it says, so vote for X. The government could ban that?” Roberts asked. Again, Stewart said yes.

When the case was reargued before the Supreme Court in September, Stewart was replaced by Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Kagan, realizing that the court was shocked by Stewart's statements, said that pamphlets, not books, could be banned.

When Chief Justice John Roberts asked her about pamphlets, here's what she said: "A pamphlet would be different. A pamphlet is pretty classic electioneering." But Kagan's answer is hardly comforting. Is the government going to have a word limit that lets bureaucrats decide when something goes from being a "pamphlet" to a book? How long would that last?

And what else is a blog post, if it were printed on paper, other than a pamphlet? Obama would be happy to silence all dissent. He's not liking these repeated face-slaps. Without the bothersome dissenters, the 'phampleteers', he wouldn't have to parade about the nation with such a long, defeated face.


Oh, and especially sweet is the furor of SEIU (one of the Unions that now have some needed competition in the political arena of words).  Anna Burger, SEIU Secretary and Treasurer...

"Our democratic process was meant to protect the people not profit margins and today's decision makes the need for an effective system for public funding, effective disclosure regulations, and other reforms of federal elections all the more pressing.

"We look forward to working with concerned individuals, officials and groups to remedy to the greatest degree possible the unfortunate consequences of this Supreme Court decision, through legislation and other appropriate means."

Suck it, SEIU.

Yes, I am celebrating this weekend. Both victories: the fall of "Ted Kennedy's Seat" and the fall of "McCain - Feingold". Both slaps in the face to leftists; both victories for the little people.

We needs keep the momentum strong throughout the entire year, 2010, to the November elections. And strong to 2012, to throw the primary bum out.

Time to throw all the bums out. All of 'em, including that McCain fellow, who helped author this crap in the first place.

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"Pelosi politburo emasculation". Those words, how they roll off the tongue! No matter that Pelosi runs the House; a Scott Brown #Masen win would derail these all these leftards, including Obama and his flawed ObamaCare bill. That would be very good news indeed; a subsequent stock market rally would ice the cake.

Even the ongoing and harrowing closeness of it all, and if she should win, the narrowness of Reid's newest lackey dawg Martha Coakley's win will be ample enough incentive to tighten sphincters in both houses of Congress.

The revelations of Martha Coakley's unworthiness to sit in a U.S. Senate seat (even one formerly held by a drunken coward who by inaction  killed a young woman and by 'privilege' got away with it) continues: Ann Coulter weighs in...

In Tuesday's primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career.

Martha Coakley isn't even fit for the late Teddy Kennedy's old seat. (What is it about this particular Senate seat?)

During the daycare/child molestation hysteria of the '80s, Gerald Amirault, his mother, Violet, and sister, Cheryl, were accused of raping children at the family's preschool in Malden, Mass., in what came to be known as the second-most notorious witch trial in Massachusetts history.

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In the most outrageous miscarriage of justice since the Salem witch trials, in July 1986, Gerald Amirault was convicted of raping and assaulting six girls and three boys and sentenced to 30 to 40 years in prison. The following year, Violet and Cheryl Amirault were convicted of raping and assaulting three girls and a boy and were sentenced to 8 to 20 years.

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Gerald Amirault had already spent 15 years in prison for crimes he no more committed than anyone reading this column did. But Coakley put on a full court press to keep Amirault in prison simply to further her political ambitions.

By then, every sentient person knew that Amirault was innocent. But instead of saying nothing, Coakley frantically lobbied Gov. Jane Swift to keep him in prison to show that she was a take-no-prisoners prosecutor, who stood up for "the children." As a result of Coakley's efforts -- and her contagious ambition -- Gov. Swift denied Amirault's clemency.

Thanks to Martha Coakley, Gerald Amirault sat in prison for another three years.

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Martha Coakley allowed her ambition to trump basic human decency as she campaigned to keep a patently innocent man in prison.

Anyone with the smallest sense of justice cannot vote to put this woman in any office. If you absolutely cannot vote for a Republican on Jan. 19, 2010, write in the name "Gerald Amirault."

Not the first District Attorney to abuse the office, I'm sure. But this one, this Martha Coakley, needs to have a time out. An extra three years as not-Senator would be just fine.

Here's ten good reasons NOT to vote for Martha Coakley...

1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of freedom of religion. In Coakley’s words: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”

2. She stated explicitly that she doesn’t believe there are any more terrorists in Afghanistan: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists… they’re gone. They’re not there any more.”

3. She stated explicitly that obtaining endorsements from Democratic politicos are more important than winning the support from the actual constituents of Massachusetts. Coakley angrily said political endorsements were preferable to “standing outside Fenway Park, in the cold, shaking hands” – precisely what her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, was doing.

4. The same statement revealed that she was unaware of the importance of Fenway Park, and the Boston Red Sox, to the people of Boston, the most important city in the state. Boston is perhaps most well known for the dedication of its fans to both the ballpark and its team.

5. Her campaign aide (an Obama presidential appointee) roughed up a reporter during a campaign event. Coakley claimed to not have seen the incident, despite a photo that was published later on showing that she stared directly at the reporter while he was on the ground. She still refuses to apologize or even condemn the action taken by her staff.

6. While a District Attorney, Coakley lobbied for the conviction of a mother, daughter and son trio on charges of child abuse, despite no actual evidence of the crimes occurring, and using only coerced testimony from young children. She was also more lenient on the mother and daughter, because such crimes are “usually” the result of “a primary male offender."

7. She’s using the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s memory to raise campaign cash, earning over a million dollars by appeals from Kennedy’s widow. Meanwhile, her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, has earned nearly the same amount simply by appealing to the hearts and minds of Republicans in Massachusetts and across the nation.

8. She’s relying on President Obama to campaign for her during the eleventh hour, despite kicking her feet up the other three months of her campaign – apparently because she thought Massachusetts voters would blindly vote for whatever Democrat was thrown in front of their faces.

9. She’s an outspoken advocate of the health reform bill which, in it’s latest iteration, will exclude union members and government workers from taxes on health insurance plans while taxing other classes of Americans; this will further incentivize union membership and funding of Democratic candidates.

10. She will provide the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats, allowing them to maintain the Democratic supermajority, and pass health care.

Oh, and don't forget these late-breaking OTHER big reasons: Obama has unleashed his ACORN attack dogs, the SEIU. He's paying purple-shirted thugs that are being bussed in to Massachusetts to sit with signs at Scott Brown rallies.

But it seems even some SEIU members are jumping ship to the Scott Brown campaign!

That, and the smear campaign Martha Coakley and Democrats unleashed against Scott Brown. Complicit in that smear attack: Barack Hussein Obama, who will be in Massachusetts today. Democrats will face criminal charges for that piece of work.

And Barack Hussein Obama's visit today? Too little, too late, says Politico.

Good news for the home team; for real Americans, if Scott Brown can pull this off.

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This is what loyal Democrats are seeing in their mailboxes this morning...

Serr --

There's a crucial Senate election in Massachusetts in just three days. We need your help to win it.

The polls are tightening as right-wing money floods the state, and one even shows the race to be a dead heat between progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent. The truth is, special elections often have very low turnout and are notoriously unpredictable.

The stakes are just too high to leave Martha's victory to chance.

If we lose, Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat will be in the hands of someone who opposes everything he fought for. We'll lose a key vote for the President's agenda in the Senate -- and put all the progress we've made toward health reform at risk.

That's why OFA is putting together a massive voter turnout effort to make sure Obama voters get back to the polls this time around -- but we need your help to pay for it. Please donate $5 or more to OFA to help fund our organizing, including our work to elect Martha Coakley.

OFA is going all out in Massachusetts -- we're sending organizers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls by the tens of thousands to make sure that folks know how to participate.

It's a huge effort, it's expensive, and time is short. But with the outcome uncertain and the stakes sky high, I don't want to wake up the morning after the election thinking that we could have done something more. If you feel the same way, please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts:

https://donate.barackobama [dot] com/Coakley

Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

This is how our President wants to bring America together, by allowing under his own name a sniveling little mind-shrimp like Mitch Stewart to rattle the can for a dawg like Martha Coakley. Read that email; see the lies?

"...progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent..." Scott Brown (who, you notice, the cowardly lizardoid Stewart never mentions by name) is far from "extreme". Of course, by definition now, ANYONE not toeing the far-left Democrat party line is "extreme". Well, listen here you little pimp Mitch Stewart, I'll be your 'extremist' if that's what's needed to force you and your cabal of leftists from power.

Oh, and 'progressive champion' Martha Coakley? Come on, that power-seeking innocent-convicting former Attorney General Massachusetts Moron doesn't HAVE convictions. She's nothing but a puppet that dances for the likes of Harry Reid. A head full of sawdust, has your 'progressive champion' Martha Coakley.

"Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat" NO, asshole, that seat is NOT TED KENNEDY'S SEAT. Ted Kennedy is rotting in hell for all we know (at least he's not drunk and driving, that much for sure); the seat RETURNED to the PEOPLE of MASSACHUSETTS, who are seemingly full of annoyance at being taken for granted by the far-left Democrats (who mostly reside in the hell-hole overpopulation center of Boston, where the poorest and youngest are attracted by the looters and moochers who give away Other People's Money to secure votes) and the wealthy corridors leading up Cape to Provincetown). There's an anti-Democrat backlash going on, if you would just notice. Doesn't matter: even if Harry Reid's puppet Coakley wins, the tiny percentage by which she wins and the ultimate efforts these leftist goons are putting out just shows how weak it is, this support for Democrats.

If Scott Brown wins, Katy bar the door.

So, do this: donate to Scott Brown. Give a few bucks, 5, 10, 25, 50 or whatever. Let's shake these leftist bastards to the core.

This is a bitch slap...

Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

Brings a smile to my stone face, yes it does.

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...as written by Senora Kennedy's maid, Rosa Ortiz.

Rosa's defense of Senora Kennedy...

Senora Kennedy have very many busy jobs. She is edit the book for the children and the poetry. She also choose the winners for the many awards she is boss for. It is make her very tired, but every day Senora is go to work for the volunteer to raise the money for the awards and the charity. She have many parties at the home and the museum. She work very hard to shop for the new gowns and invitacions. She is also make the seating arrange and hide the tequila from Tio Teddy so he not get borracho. This she do for the poor.

Yes, Democrats should always support their party-apparatchiks. Especially the ones who so obviously deserve their appointments.

I invite the comparisons...the obviously-unqualified for any office Senora Kennedy, the 100 Million Dollar Woman, vs. Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Earned vs. inherited; a massive strength of character vs. a weak political debutante; a tough-as-nails grandmother and Governor vs. a dilettantish political neophyte. Except that she bounced on a president's knee, Senora Caroline is as qualified to be Senator as, say, a Minnesota comedian.

Democrats should hide their heads in shame if this woman is appointed to the U.S. Senate.

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